The Interwebs Grandad joins Twitter

Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee

, credited

for inventing this little thing called the World Wide Web, has signed up for Twitter

in a move that could potentially rip a hole in the time/space continuum.

The British computer scientist, engineer and MIT professor apparently got on Twitter yesterday just before he entered into a conversation

with Tim O’Reilly on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit.

The man uses Tweetie

and thinks either the app or the Twitter website has a confusing user interface

. Since Berners-Lee is also the Director of Web standards organization World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), that’s telling.

(Hat tip to Tom Raftery

)

get widgetminimize

CrunchBase Information

Tim Berners-Lee

Website:

w3c.org

graduate of Oxford University, England, in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web… Learn More

Twitter

Website:	twitter.com
Location:	San Francisco, California, United States
Founded:	March 21, 2006
Funding:	$155M

Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006… Learn More

Information provided by CrunchBase

via techcrunch.com